Sunlight Labs

What happens when our non-profit credentials don’t get us...

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:57:38 -0400

What happens when our non-profit credentials don’t get us into the workshops at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco? We hole up in hotel room and make stuff! Taking advantage of services like Summize, TweetScan, and others we created a tag cloud of what’s on the collective mind of expo attendees. So what are they talking about? Technology, food, and partying, of course. The tag cloud was created by finding the people who have mentioned the expo in Twitter in the past five days, taking all of their tweets since, and counting the words. A live version of the cloud is available for viewing at our booth and will soon be available on a public web server. Come check it out and give the non-profits some love up on the 3rd floor of Moscone! —Josh & Jeremy

How Google Can Eat Amazon’s Lunch - GigaOM

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:26:05 -0400

How Google Can Eat Amazon’s Lunch - GigaOM:

Winer makes a good point with regard to web services, Amazon and Google.

We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:11:51 -0400

We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming:

Using GoogleMaps to tell stories

labs closed!

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:26:19 -0400

The labs close down as we migrate to the Press Club to watch Larry Lessig introduce Change Congress to DC.

Happy to have Aaron Schwartz of Open Library and Dan O’Neil of EveryBlock in the office...

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:51:11 -0400

Happy to have Aaron Schwartz of Open Library and Dan O’Neil of EveryBlock in the office showing off their goods.

Thanks Waving Sparks for the data flow diagram among a set of...

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:35:11 -0400

Thanks Waving Sparks for the data flow diagram among a set of promiment government data sites.

http://geekslovebowling.com

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:25:45 -0400

http://geekslovebowling.com:

Geeks love bowling … especially at SXSW.

Picture of the new Sunlight R2-D2 courtesy of Lizzie.

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:31:36 -0500

Picture of the new Sunlight R2-D2 courtesy of Lizzie.

3/3

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:03:17 -0500

Tom Steinberg ate the last doughnut
Getting the skinny on my ZIP @ http://zipskinny.com/index.php?zip=40514
DayQuil + http://presidentialwatch08.com/index.php/map/ means I’m signing off for the day

(609) 354-9898

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:51:50 -0500

(609) 354-9898:

Got a call on my GrandCentral number a few minutes ago. I checked out the number on 800notes.com and found quite a few other people in DC and MD that had been called over the past 2 - 3 hours. I find it amazingly awesome that it is possible to see an almost real-time log of people who have been called by that number as well.

Importing Taxpayers for Common Sense ‘Big Kahuna’ 2008 earmarks database....

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:18:56 -0500

Importing Taxpayers for Common Sense ‘Big Kahuna’ 2008 earmarks database. http://taxpayer.net/budget/fy08earmarks/fy08databasemain.html

earmarks

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:03:37 -0500

earmarks

Python main() functions

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:42:06 -0500

Python main() functions:

Python tips from Guido himself

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/feb/07/media/

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:45:24 -0500

http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/feb/07/media/:

James Bennett gives a great overview of hosting static media.

Almost done processing FEC data. Yes!

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:53:22 -0500

Almost done processing FEC data. Yes!

Started processing FEC records that start with ‘S’ at 9am this morning. It’s still...

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:55:10 -0500

Started processing FEC records that start with ‘S’ at 9am this morning. It’s still running at midnight. That works out to about 27 records per second.